David Sackett was a leader of clinical epidemiology and a founder of evidence-based medicine. He was born in 1934 in Chicago, Illinois, and spent most of his professional career in Canada and Great Britain. He died of cancer in May 2015 in Markdale, Ontario, at the age of 80, survived by his wife, Barbara, 4 sons, and 8 grandchildren.

Sackett leaves a legacy that has taken hold and continues to gain momentum. Two parts of this legacy is well-known by ACP members and Annals subscribers–namely, more informative ((“structured(”) abstracts for journal articles (1), and ACP Journal Club (2). He was a key member of the groups that devised these bridges between evidence published in the medical literature, on one side, and health care practice, on the other.